The Impact of Crime Victims' Laws and Programs Can Be

question 19

Multiple Choice

The impact of crime victims' laws and programs can be evaluated from three different perspectives: impact on the crime victims, impact on the CJS, and

• A) psychological effects on the victims
• B) impact on offenders' sentencing
• C) crime reduction
• D) impact on community-police relationships

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Definitions:

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding all the values together and dividing by the number of values.

25th Percentile

A measure indicating that 25 percent of the observed values fall below this point, also known as the first quartile.

Median

The middle value in a sorted list of numbers, effectively dividing the dataset into two equal parts.

75th Percentile

A value below which 75% of the observations in a group fall, often used to measure the upper quartile.